24.3259, Calls: West Germanic, General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/USA

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Subject: 24.3259, Calls: West Germanic, General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/USA

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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:59:53
From: Lindsay Preseau [ldpres at berkeley.edu]
Subject: 22nd Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference: Variation in West Germanic

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Full Title: 22nd Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference: Variation in West Germanic 

Date: 01-Mar-2014 - 02-Mar-2014
Location: Berkeley, California, USA 
Contact Person: Lindsay Preseau
Meeting Email: berkeleygermanconference at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Language Family(ies): West Germanic 

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2014 

Meeting Description:

22nd Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference
Variation in West Germanic: Past, Present, and Future
March 1-2, 2014

Werner F. Leopold’s 1959 publication “The Decline of German Dialects” foresaw a grim future for German dialect diversity, positing that “the trend is toward a single colloquial standard over the whole territory.” Such claims of widespread dialect leveling in the face of linguistic globalization and standardization are not limited to German, and have persisted in modern literature. Despite this, there is a widening field of literature exploring new and evolved varieties of West Germanic, from dialects that mediate between standard and non-standard varieties such as the Dutch tussentaal regiolect, to such emerging “multiethnolects” as the German Kiezdeutsch.

55 years after Leopold’s prediction, the aim of this conference is to survey the past, present, and future status of nonstandard varieties of West Germanic. This conference aims thus most broadly to explore the linguistic structure of West Germanic dialects, but also to investigate the following questions: Where is the boundary between standard and non-standard? What are the effects of standardization on regional dialects, sociolects, and ethnolects? How have changing (and disappearing) linguistic and political boundaries affected non-standard varieties? What characterizes the processes of dialect leveling and dialect emergence? How are dialects represented in literature and multimedia? 

Keynote speaker to be announced.

This conference will be held in Dwinelle Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, March 1-2, 2014. 

Call for Papers:

Please submit a 300-word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by January 10, 2014 to berkeleygermanconference at gmail.com. Limited travel funds are available for graduate student presenters. 

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

- Syntactic/morphological/phonological/lexical/semantic variations in specific dialects 
- Dialects in contact
- Dialects in diachronic perspective
- Dialect representation in literature, film, and the media
- Dialect transcription and translation
- Linguistic variety in computer-mediated communication
- Yiddish revivals
- German/Dutch dialects in the Americas
- Youth and non-standard language
- Standard/dialect diglossia
- Dialect extinction/collapse
- Dialect resurgence







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